Olof Monologue from Master Olof: A Drama in Five Acts

From Master Olof: A Drama in Five Acts by August Strindberg

male · defiant · 1:14 min

Do you still dare to trust my word, woman? Are you not afraid of me? Can you not hear the lightnings of the ban hissing around our heads? Why don't you join these twenty righteous ones who still remain within the refuge of Holy Church?--Answer me! Do you think the Lord has cast me out as these have done? (Harlot: No!) Well, then! The great bishop of the small city of Linkoeping has sold my soul to Satan for the term of my life--for farther than that his power does not reach--and he has done so because I bade the people seek their Lord when they had been prohibited from doing so! Here is the contract! As the Church, by that contract, has bound me to hell, so I set myself free from it (he tears the letter to pieces)--and from the ban of the Church, too! So help me God! Amen!

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